When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea; it is sure to be bad.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess.

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.

If the defender is forced to give up the center, then every possible attack follows almost of itself.

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.